One Page At A Time

On my other blog, The Moody Muses, we kicked off a Change Your Stars Challenge for 2010. As my fellow Muse, Barb, wrote in her kick-off post:

In the wonderful Heath Ledger movie, A Knight’s Tale, the hero pursues a destiny beyond his status and upbringing. In the beginning, his friends think he’s crazy, but as the movie progresses, he proves that a man can indeed carve his own future. Or, as he calls it, “change his stars.”

I loved this idea. For the past few years, I had gotten really lost with my writing - a kind of, is it the forest or the trees kind of confusion that paralyzed me and prevented me from making any progress, whether it be good or bad.

But thinking about my hopes and dreams in the context of the Change Your Stars Challenge helped me stop looking at so big a picture. At least so far. My fellow Muse, Cathryn, offered the idea of planning in terms of 30 day increments, so that is what I have chosen to do to kick off 2010. To set the small goal to write at least one page a day.

My hope is to change my stars, one page at a time.

Today is January 10, and we are 1/3 of the way through the first 30 days of the challenge. So far, so good! I hate to say this because I sure don't want to jinx my productivity, but so far I have made good on my one page a day goal. In fact, I have written nearly forty pages since the turning of the calendar's page on the new year.

I have a great team of supporters cheering me on, one page at a time, and I want to thank you guys for hanging in there and offering your care and encouragement. I truly hope I have even more good news to report when I next share an update on my progress.

xoxo,
bex